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Tomorrow is my daughter's last day as a shift manager at our local coffee shop. There was no resignation letter. Technically, she is not resigning --she's just not going to be on the schedule since she'll be in Vancouver for her second year of college.
The rule is as long as she works once every six weeks, she maintains her employee status. Last year, her manager called her every six weeks and paid her a couple of bucks for the call to maintain her active status. That way, she was able to slide right back into the job without a lot of fuss.
However, after a summer of demanding latte drinkers, Berit is hoping her manager will not place those calls this year. I suggested a resignation letter, she disagreed.
Because I have spent the bulk of my career working for myself I have only written two Letters of Resignation. They were short and sweet. Something like, " This is to officially inform you that April 21, 1978 will be my last day of employment. I am moving to Minnesota."
When I resigned from my last job in 1997, it was even briefer.
There are lots of blogs and websites that offer resignation letter templates.
For many people, work is never sweeter than the 2-3 weeks after handing in the resignation letter. Being a short-timer can be glorious thing. Even though most people resign for a better opportunity or because they just hate their jobs that much, there is some angst about doing the deed.
Bebehblog, oh crap,I'm actually pregnant writes,
I didn’t sleep very well last night because I was busy composing my resignation letter in my head. It usually started with “Thank you for all the opportunities but I won’t be continuing with the company” and ended with “GOOD LUCK FINDING SOME OTHER SUCKER WHO WILL DO THIS JOB YOU UNGRATEFUL JERKS!!!”
[] if they were smart, my company would offer me the option to do most of my job from home. But I’ll keep (most of) my complaining to myself, and try to get up my nerve to turn in a short, polite, early resignation letter so no one can accuse me of abandoning the company.
After work that day, she wrote a footnote to the post:
Footnote: Yesterday made me want to quit. Today actually went pretty well, with lots of “good jobs” and “we appreciate yous”. I know in the long run I’m leaving one way or another, so why is it so hard to just SAY so?
Jelaine of Along The Path I Go shares the experience of having an "evil" co-worker resign. First,she shares the lessons learned by working with a difficult employee.
As of 5pm yesterday evening, she submitted her letter of resignation (after cussing out another employee in a meeting). And today, it was decided that her resignation will come into effect immediately (as to ensure that she does not deface company property), because under the circumstances, her departure arose from a not so positive situation.
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I knew yesterday afternoon when she kept popping off at the mouth that she was done for. I knew from there, she was about to go down in flames, but it was her own damn fault. She was ultimately the unfortunate demise of her demeanor. At times she made me so angry and upset that she made me physically want to spit!! She caused me numerous headaches, and various bad moods that sometimes lasted upwards of an entire week. She was nasty, mean, malicious, selfish, disrespectful, rude and down right contradictory.I will say this, through-out her evil rein, she has taught me one thing, and that’s how to better control my emotions (and just how NOT to treat people) when placed around a, “socially unemployable” (as my co-workers called her) person. I feel horrible for her, because I wouldn’t wish the loss of a job on anyone (because there were going to fire her if she didn’t resign), but what’s done is done and it’s time to move on and pick up the shattered pieces.
Talk to most career consultants and they will tell you the one thing you absolutely do not want to do is resign from a job before you have another one.
Alan Sklover has a great piece outlining 21 Necessary Precautions before resigning from your job
5. Get Your Next Employment Confirmed First: If there’s one pre-resignation precaution you need to remember and follow, it’s this one: you don’t want to resign and then later find out
